The Interactionist Imagination : Studying Meaning, Situation and Micro-Social Order

This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework have had on interactionism as perspective...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137581846
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-58184-6
Physical DescriptionXII, 442 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Instigators of Interactionism - A Short Introduction to Interactionism in Sociology; Michael Hviid Jacobsen
  • Chapter 1: Georg Simmel - Interactionist Before Symbolic Interactionism?; Greg Smith
  • Chapter 2: Robert E. Park - A Precursor to Interactionism; Suzie Guth
  • Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead - The Evolution of Mind, Self and Society through Interaction; Antony J. Puddephatt
  • Chapter 4: Everett C. Hughes - Human Ecology, Peripheries and the World of Work; Edward B. Davis
  • Chapter 5: Herbert Blumer - From Critique to Perspective; Alex Dennis
  • Chapter 6: Manford H. Kuhn - A Legacy in the Age of Inquiry; Michael A. Katovich
  • Chapter 7: Erving Goffman - Exploring the Interaction Order through Everyday Observations and Imaginative Metaphors; Michael Hviid Jacobsen
  • Chapter 8: Harold Garfinkel - Experimenting with Social Order; Dirk vom Lehn
  • Chapter 9: Anselm L. Strauss - Action/Work as Process and Perspective; Jörg Strübing
  • Chapter 10: Jack D. Douglas - The Existential Sociology Project; Andrey Melnikov & Joseph A. Kotarba
  • Chapter 11: Howard S. Becker - Aspects of an Open Sociology; Marc Perrenoud
  • Chapter 12: Stanford M. Lyman - A Sociology of the Absurd and Beyond; Cecil E. Greek & Michael Hviid Jacobsen
  • Chapter 13: Arlie R. Hochschild - Interactions, Emotions and Commercialized Intimacy; Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Anders Petersen
  • Chapter 14: Gary Alan Fine - From Small Groups to Peopled Ethnography; Chiara Bassetti & Roberta Sassatelli
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